I am excited to announce that 10th annual Golden Geek nominations for the Best Games of 2015 are now open!

The Golden Geek Award is given annually to the best new games of the year, as selected by you, the users. The "Geekies" will be given in the following categories:

For Board Games---------------- Board Game of The Year- Best Strategy Game - Best Thematic Game- Best Family Game- Best Wargame- Best 2-player Game- Best Party Game- Best Card Game- Best Artwork/Presentation- Best Expansion - Best Print & Play (New Rules See Below!)- Most Innovative - Best Solo Game- Best Podcast- Best Board Game App/Videogame (New category)

For RPGs--------- RPG Game of the Year- Best Artwork & Presentation- Best Supplement- Best Podcast

For Video Games---------------- Video Game of the Year- Best Visuals/Artwork- Best Indie Game- Best Mobile/Handheld Game- Most Innovative Game- Best PC Game (New category)- Best Xbox One Game (New category)- Best PS4 Game (New category)- Best Wii U Game (New category)- Best 3DS Game (New category)- Best PS Vita Game (New category)

You may notice there are a few changes for this year. We've removed the Abstract Games, and Children's games categories from the board game award due to lack of participation. We've added Best Board Game App to the board game awards.

There is a new rule for the Print & Play category - the nominees for this category may not be a title that has been, in the process of, or announcement of it being published or crowdfunded during the award period.

In addition, we've added 6 new categories to the video game award for each major platform (PC, XBox One, PS4, Wii U, 3DS, and PS Vita).

Here are the specifics:

In order to avoid voter fraud, we have adopted the following restrictions. Voting is restricted to either supporting users (having a supporter badge from any year is sufficient),voters who pay a one-time 20 GeekGold fee, or users who have purchased an avatar or a geekbadge.

Anyone caught stuffing the ballot box will have their votes removed and be suspended permanently from the site.

There will be two steps to selecting the winners.

First, there will be a nomination phase. Each eligible voter can nominate up to 10 items in each of the categories. The 10 items with the most nominations in each category will become the nominees for the final voting. You are not restricted to the list of suggested nominees.

The board game nomination page is here. The RPG nomination page is here. The video game nomination page is here.

For those who don't want to read the specifics of the system, users will rank the games in each category from 1 to 10, (with a 0 for no opinion), and, through some mathemagical computations, we will select the winner.

The nomination phase will run until 12am midnight CST March 4th 2016 and the final voting for 2 more weeks after that - March 18 2016. The winners will be announced shortly afterwards.

You are welcome to campaign, discuss voting and nominations, etc, as much as you like. Let the awards begin!

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“It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.” ― Naomi Klein

“Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed buildings.” ― Naomi Klein

andrewhodkinson wrote:

godunow wrote:

How do you nominate Life is Strange as Game of the Year ?

Do you need to choose all five episodes separately?

You can use the game entry you made for the 5 episode compilation: Life is Strange

Ahh, ok, thanks. Somehow with filter set to "owned" list was showing only separate episodes, but after switching to "rated" it has shown this one.

Is a geek badge different than a micro badge? I've purchased a micro badge and it states that those who've purchased a geek badge are eligible to vote. Wondering if I should be eligible (I'm not currently).

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I don't see a save button. If I leave the page will my nominations remain saved?